Welcome to NIF2.com, providing insight into stock car racing in Northern Ireland from behind the lens. We aim to feature as much as we can from Tullyroan Oval, Ballymena Raceway and as well as bits and pieces from our travels and a look back at days gone.

Added: 01 Jan 2013 Category: 2013 Oval Racing 2013 - #1 – Ballymena Raceway – 1/1/13 First of all Happy new year to all my readers and followers. As is traditional, the Ballymena Raceway festive meeting took place on New years day and included the National Hot Rods Winter Nationals, Stock Rods, Junior Rods and Gp 2 Lightning Rods. [see the full article] Added: 31 Dec 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #47 – Tullyroan Oval – 30/12/12 The final meeting of 2012 and just like 2011 my 47th meeting of the year, with a personal target of 50 remaining illusive. It already seems like there has been a lifetime of racing at Tullyroan, but this was the first festive meeting, with the big van bangers getting their seasonal outing and the Robins holding their Irish Championship. Festive meetings can be a bit hit and miss in terms of car and spectator turnouts, but despite the forecast of rain and gales, there was a good turnout in most of the classes, if anything the ProStocks numbers would be the only class you’d have expected more cars out in, and I think there was 15 of them out. [see the full article] Added: 19 Dec 2012 Category: Past Oval Racing Festive Meetings As we come ever closer to the festive period, I thought I’d write a quick piece to reflect on the Christmas meetings and what I make of them. [see the full article] Added: 13 Dec 2012 Category: Older Oval Racing And The Year Was.... 2007 Ballymena hosted their big 30th Anniversary meeting, Glenn Bell won his second Stock Rod world title, Craig McConnell won the F2 European title,I got my first SLR camera, and got told not to come back to Nutts Corner Raceway, which has been a significant turn in what I’ve ended up doing ever since. [see the full article] Added: 02 Dec 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2013 Calendars Now Available Online As has been the case in previous Years I'm once again creating a few different designs of calendar which will be sold in aid of Charity. Between 2009 and 2011 I have managed to raise over £1,600 for charities which are close to my heart, and I hope this year we will continue to get a good response on calendar sales. This year I have opted to go with 2 designs, a Tullyroan Oval calendar and a General NI Oval Racing Calendar. This year due to not taking in any 2 Litre Hot Rod meetings on the mainland, I simply don't have enough of a mix of shots to produce a 2 Litre Hot Rod Calendar. I'd like to extend my thanks to this years calendar Sponsors: - Bevan Motosport - Cirrus Plastics - Derek McMillan Commercial Refinishers - Gilmore Engineering - Greers of Antrim - NI Oval TV - NW Developments - Martin O'Donovan Racing - McKinstry Skip Hire - Murrays of Randalstown - Ryan Wright Signs - Stephen Boyd Racing - Tullyroan Oval and to Darren Black of Tullyroan Oval for assisting in organising the above sponsors. The calendars can be purchased online via paypal for £6 which includes £1 p&p All profits raised will once again be split equally and donated to the Neo-Natal Unit at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital, MacMillan Cancer Support and the NI Chest, Heart and Stroke Association. [see the full article] Added: 27 Nov 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #46 - Tullyroan Oval - 25/11/12 There is a lot of things unpredictable in Oval Racing, but the one thing you can be fairly sure of is that an out of season meeting will be cold, and indeed it was. Anywhere else in the world you’d probably also be nervously watching the forecasts for rain, but this is Northern Ireland and you’re as likely to get a wet night in the middle of the summer as you are in the middle of the winter. Fortunately it was dry, which left firstly the cold to content with and then quite a heavy fog. [see the full article] Added: 06 Nov 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #45 - TVR Lochgelly - 4/11/12 The second meeting of my trip to Scotland, my second visit to Lochgelly this season and the second meeting in as many days at the venue. It was quite re-assuring to be charged £10 per person in, which in case the maths lets you down is one third cheaper than the Cowdie gate price for a meeting of a similar stature, and that is with no fancy offers on, and as an added bonus I did manage to get a burger this time. [see the full article] Added: 06 Nov 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #44 – Cowdenbeath – 3/11/12 Initially I had hoped to make the Superbowl at Cowdie for my next trip, but couldn’t decide between it and Tipperary and was trying to balance in a family function as well, on this rare occasion the family function won and I didn’t go to either meeting. Spurred on by the potential of a few of our cars racing in the ProStocks and a few quid off on the boat, I decided to combine the final meeting of the season at Cowdie along with the final meeting at Lochgelly and a day of Christmas shopping on the way home, to make a weekend out of it. [see the full article] Added: 01 Nov 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing Superstox Return to Northern Ireland So Superstox are returning to Northern Ireland, and join the line-up of classes at Tullyroan Oval, I’m sure it is a hot topic which will have much debate over the winter. There is valid arguments that this will take numbers away from the F2 class, but also a valid argument that there is potential racers out there who don’t fancy going into F2’s and see them as too expensive, or too much travelling. I’ve mixed feelings on the arrival, on a personal note it’ll be great to see Open wheeled racing at my regular haunt, but on the other hand I’m still a BriSCA fan at heart, although one that is increasingly frustrated by the lack of support NI gets from the governing body and the increasing price of the class which is going through quite a dull period with few rivalries. [see the full article] Added: 21 Oct 2012 Category: 2012 Oval Racing 2012 - #43 – Tullyroan Oval – 20/10/12 The last meeting of the local season for me, before we start into out of season meetings, trips to far off destinations and standing foundered wondering what it was that made you think it was a good idea to leave the comfort of the living room. On the cards was the ProStock Irish Closed Championship, 2L National Bangers Irish Championship, Lightning Rods and 2.0 Hot Rods. [see the full article]

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